Christian Lundgren
Christian Lundgren specialises in Danish and international mergers and acquisitions (M&A), capital markets, company law, and regulatory matters, i.a. FDI regulation and international trade.
He has advised on several landmark and trend-setting transactions in Denmark, e.g. within the telecommunications, IT and life science industries, and in the financial and industrial sectors as well.
He also frequently advises Danish businesses on acquisitions and other transactions abroad. These are often “once-in-a-lifetime transactions”, and the involvement of experienced advisers is crucial. Christian's clients include several Nasdaq C25 companies, leading Nordic and international private equity funds, and other market-leading businesses.
Christian has also advised on cases which have decisively influenced company and capital markets regulation in Denmark.
At the heart of Christian's advice lies a powerful combination of thorough knowledge of the law and an innate understanding of clients' commercial needs, aiming always to attain client targets quickly and accurately.
Christian heads our Capital Markets and Foreign Direct Investments practice groups.
Background
Career
- Partner, Kromann Reumert, 2002-
- Kromann Reumert, 1997-
- Right of audience before the Danish High Court 1996
- Cleary Gottlieb, Brussels, 1995-1996
Education
- Admitted to practise law 1994
- Master of Laws (cand. jur.), University of Copenhagen, 1991
Languages
- English
Activities
- Member of the American Bar Association (ABA), Section of International Law
- Member of the International Bar Association (IBA)
- Honorary President and member of Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA)
- External lecturer, University of Copenhagen, 1997-2003
Publications
- “Køb og salg af virksomheder” (Purchase and Sale of Businesses), Nyt Juridisk Forlag, 2019
- "Compliance for praktikere" (in English: Compliance for practitioners), published by Djøf Forlag, 2021, the chapter on capital market criminal law
High-profile cases
Christian has advised:
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Board of SimCorp on recommended take-over offer by Deutsche Börse (2023)
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Novo Holdings on merger of Novozymes and Chr. Hansen (2022, 2023)
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NKT on sale of NKT Photonics and rights issues (2021, 2022, 2023)
- Topdanmark on the sale of Topdanmark Liv to Nordea (2022)
- Triton on the acquisition of Gaia Foods (2021)
- FLSmidth on the accelerated book-building offering (2021)
- FLSmidth on the acquisition of ThyssenKrupp Mining Division (2021)
- NKT on the implementation of a capitalization plan (2020) (private placement and rights issue)
- Ørsted on the sale of Radius in (2019, 2020)
- Novo Holdings on i.a. investments in NREP and Synlab and the acquisition of Xellia Pharmacueticals and Sonion
- Scandinavian Tobacco Group on i.a. the acquisition of Royal Agio (The Netherlands) (2019, 2020)
- Nordic Capital on i.a. the acquisition of Conscia (2019)
- the Danish owners on the merger of Widex and Sivantos (now WS Audiology) (2018, 2019)
- TDC on i.a. takeover bids in (2005 and again in 2018)
- NKT and Nilfisk on the demerger of NKT and the separate listing of Nilfisk (2016, 2017)
- FLSmidth in a number of transactions in Denmark and abroad, including the acquisition of Sandvik’s mining division and the sale of Cembrit (2015)
- Topdanmark’s board of directors on a mandatory takeover bid (2016)
- Scandinavian Tobacco Group and owners in connection with an IPO (2016)
- Ørsted (then DONG Energy) in connection with an IPO (2016)
- 10+ Danish C25 and large cap companies on ECM matters, including disclosure obligations.
